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I also think it is a bit of a shame - but it could be difficult and divisive. If it is RIII, well, he was a Catholic, and although Westminster Abbey was Catholic until the Reformation it is now C of E. So burying him in a C of E place might offend some people - though there is a paradox in that most of the Kings and Queens buried there were Catholics. James I had his mother, Mary Queen of Scots moved from Peterborough Cathedral and buried in the Abbey even though she was Catholic and the Abbey was, by then C of E. All this religious stuff is giving me a headache!
It's a bit mad that, in this day and age, a few Anglicans would get their knickers in a twist over a Catholic king being buried in the Abbey.